During the pandemic I have had many guilty YouTube pleasures. Nothing weird or anything, just certain shows I binge-watched or channels I ended up getting a little addicted to. I’d heard of Gordon Ramsey prior to the pandemic, I knew he was fire in the kitchen and that he was easy to ignite. I watched a couple episodes of Kitchen Nightmares and couldn’t stop. To that end, I present: The Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares Approach to Eating Out and Everything Else THE PROCESS
A) Assessment: For this part Gordon sits down in the dining room and is served a meal. He is generally always nice to the servers who he seems to think of as hapless victims of poor management as the majority of the time, that is exactly what they end up proving to be. He always finds faults even if he has to crawl around on the floor, climb the curtains or scrape gum off the bottom of his own table.
B) The Breakdown: By this I don’t mean a friendly breakdown of his findings. Gordon breaks down the problems one by one, including the people, and he is rarely gentle about it.
*At this point there is often a “set up to fail” dinner service that either brings on another service and sometimes even a third to turn things around or becomes a transformative turn around where people and the business itself rise like a phoenix from the ashes they drilled it into before setting it aflame. C) The Buildup: After a defeated night (there is always at least one), he has broken down everything and now builds it back up.
D) The Re-Launch: Where with a fresh restaurant, a fresh approach and a fresh overall attitude, a new plan is implemented. E) Livin’ the Dream: G.R. Doesn’t accept people not realizing how awesome they could be. I can’t imagine what it must be like to see through his eyes but with his brain attached, his thoughts to process. He looks where others don’t look so he sees what others don’t see. Most of all, he is relentlessly honest. I’ve been like that my whole life but I’m not a master chef or anything else, so I don’t get away with it. The idea is to go forward having learned and balancing that with an open enough mind to continue to change, for the better, always putting your best foot forward. TODO…following the Recipe. Refresh the Menu: The advice is to refresh that menu every so often. As this relates to diet it would be contingent upon a lot of variables. As it applies to living life, 6 months is good. Every six months challenge yourself to take a big step instead of all the little ones forward and back Parts of the Restaurant, Parts of the Psyche and How it’s all Connected
This is why I don’t own a television or have cable, yet all of this can be applied as a means to improve not just a nightmare kitchen, but anything else one might choose to apply it to. Thanks Gordon Ramsey
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5/31/2022 02:28:26 pm
Well written! I like Gordon Ramsey when he’s nice. He’s rarely nice. But he gets results. It’s strange. Would you thrive under his critical approach?
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I did well with drill instructors for my short stint in the military. I had authority issues that needed work. Sometimes, you just have to shut up and do the thing. Do it right, no yelling. The military taught me the importance of being observant as well.
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